Anthem as objectivism

1. Politics: Capitalism. Government gives people rights and freedom.

1.1. "I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I have to share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of spirit" (Rand 95)

1.2. “The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."

2. Ethics: Man is an end in himself. Man should only care about himself; no one else matters. "The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life."

2.1. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end” (Rand 95)

2.2. “I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

3. Epistomology: Man's ability to reason is all that matters. If man does not believe or has not discovered it, it doesn't exist.

3.1. "For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind" (Rand 100)"For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind" (Rand 100).

3.2. “We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then."

4. Metaphysics: Things are what they are. We do not control what they are. They exist independently of us. Reality exists, regardless of whether we want it to or not.

4.1. “The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them (Rand 52)

4.2. “There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”